ANOTHER BIRTHDAY CARD FOR JANUARY BIRTHDAYS IN OUR FAMILY

HEY BLOGGIES,

Today I have another birthday card I made for the 6 birthdays in January in my family.  This one was made with some retired items, but it fits so perfect for the person who is receiving it:

 My daughter has a cupcake business so I just had to use this stamp set and the punch for the inside.  AND I love coloring so it was so much fun to make!!

Wish this was a real cupcake - YUMMMM. I would gobble it right up.

AND NOW ON TO BUSINESS:

HAPPY NEW YEAR coming up in three days!!  AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.  In order to celebrate in true bloggie-land order, I am going to give one of YOU a gift!!

All you have to do is leave me a comment and tell me where you live and if you need a demonstrator. (No problem if you already have a demo just tell me so and leave a comment.)  Then I will use Random.org to pick one winner from all the comments between now and my birthday - JAN 1 - and that person will win:

Clear block storage Caddy.

This is a brand new storage caddy purchased just for this occasion - you can store ALL your Stampin' Up! blocks in all the sizes in the handy case.  I LOVE it for when I go somewhere to stamp.  I have them right there and they don't get lost.

Here is how you can win:

1.  Leave me a comment each day for one entry to win 

2.  Purchase anything from my store and get another entry to win

3.  Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are and the name you follow with for another entry to win.

It is that easy!!  So many of my customers OOOOH and AAAAH when they see my clear block storage caddy.  They immediately want one for themselves and usually order it!!  Now YOU too can have this storage caddy for all your clear blocks too!!

GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND FUN FOR YOU!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME MEANS A GIFT FOR YOU

HEY BLOGGIES!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR coming up in three days!!  AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.  In order to celebrate in true bloggie-land order, I am going to give one of YOU a gift!!

All you have to do is leave me a comment.   Then I will use Random.org to pick one winner from all the comments between now and my birthday - JAN 1 - and that person will win:

Clear block storage Caddy.

This is a brand new storage caddy purchased just for this occasion - you can store ALL your Stampin' Up! blocks in all the sizes in the handy case.  I LOVE it for when I go somewhere to stamp.  I have them right there and they don't get lost.

Here is how you can win:

1.  Leave me a comment each day for one entry to win 

2.  Purchase anything from my store and get another THREE entries to win

3.  Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are and the name you follow with for another TWO entries to win.

It is that easy!!  So many of my customers OOOOH and AAAAH when they see my clear block storage caddy.  They immediately want one for themselves and usually order it!!  Now YOU too can have this storage caddy for all your clear blocks too!!

GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND FUN FOR YOU!!

BIG SHOT SPECIAL PRICING

HOLA, CIAO, HALLO, HEY THERE

HAVE I GOT AN AMAZING DEAL FOR YOU!!

DON’T MISS OUT!

BIG SHOT SPECIAL:   Now through March 22 only, I am making a special offer to anyone who buys a BIG SHOT from me. Not only will you get TWO Sale-a-Bration items of your choice** , but I will send you TWO Embossing Folders (your choice) as a thank you gift.  This offer is ONLY from ME TO YOU.

**since the Big Shot is $99.95, you’ll have to buy something small to push the total over $100 to receive your second SAB item. (ink refills, adhesives, bottle caps, etc.)

ISN'T FREE WONDERFUL??!!  YOU GET TWO FREE SALE-A-BRATION ITEMS FROM STAMPIN' UP! WHEN YOUR ORDER IS $100 OR MORE, AND YOU WILL GET TWO FREE EMBOSSING FOLDERS FROM ME AS MY WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU FOR ORDERING THE BIG SHOT FROM ME!!

What are you waiting for?  You know you have wanted that big shot for a very long  l o n g  time!! Here is your chance to get it AND get free items as well.

(I think this one has YOUR name on it!!)

CARD TECHNIQUE: TILES WITH GROUT

I have seen this in several places in bloggie land recently - TILES WITH GROUT TECHNIQUE.  I saw the video on Frenchie's blog and used her directions.  Thanks Frenchie!! (France Martin of Wyoming).

Equal sized cut pieces glued onto a back layer and then covered with versa mark and heated with clear embossing powder. It comes out shiney like real tiles.  (sorry it doesn't show the shine in the photo).

I used the FREE Sycamore Street designer paper from SALE-A-BRATION, which is still available until March 22nd.  Don't you L O V E free??!! I sure do.

Also FREE and used on my card is the Sycamore Ribbons and Buttons Pack.  It includes:  three rolls of ribbon (pool party, tangerine tango and island indigo) and a bunch of buttons in those same three colors!!]

linked up to The Paper Players

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Won't you leave me a comment?  I so enjoy hearing from y'all.

VINE STREET EMBOSSING FOLDER

Here is a video made by Stampin' Up! to show how easy it is to emboss with embossing folders.  The VINE STREET EMBOSSING FOLDER is FREE during Sale-A-Bration.

 This is the card I made with the VINE STREET EMBOSSING FOLDER and the MADISON AVENUE STAMP SET, SYCAMORE STREET DESIGNER PAPER, as well as the BUTTONS AND RIBBONS SET - ALL FREE through SALE-A-BRATION!!

Contact me NOW so you can get these free items with any $50 order OR by hosting a workshop at your home and getting ALL OF THEM FREE!! I still have a few spots left for YOUR WORKSHOP!!

BLOG CANDY WINNNNNER!!!

WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER...THANKS TO ALL WHO LEFT SUCH LOVELY COMMENTS ON MY BLOG DURING LAST WEEK'S BLOG HOP.

I am so glad you liked all our projects and got some good ideas to use yourselves.

I picked the winner of my BLOG CANDY and it was:

(horns and trumpet sound here)....KATHY THOMAS.   Her package is on it's way to her.  She won "A Cherry on Top" hostess stamp set, a Simply Sent a Valentine Kit, some pool party bakers twine, assorted  brads, buttons, and embellishments too!!

Keep checking back so you won't miss our NEXT blog hop!!

In the meantime...GET CREATIVE Y'ALL!!

Can't do a post without a photo of some kind..Here is a Valentine decoration I made with my BIG SHOT:

FRIENDS ARE THE GARDEN OF LIFE

My friend, Jan Mougel, is a fellow Glitter Queen team member and she showed us during the blog hop how to make an ADORABLE GIFT BAG from 2 sheets of designer series paper.  Not only did she tell us how to do it, but she also made a video for us.  At my advancing age, I find I am getting to be more and more a visual learner.  That video was done so very well that I immediately took out my score tool and made the gift bag!!  Thanks so much JAN.  If you want to see her video, please visit her at: www.bearycreativecrafts.blogspot.com 

 I made this gift bag to put a fun valentine in for a friend of mine.  Not only is the candy yummy, but she will receive a handcrafted gift bag from me too!!

I made this bag from the FREE SYCAMORE STREET DSP from the Sale-a-Bration flyer.  You can choose to get this FREE with a $50 order of any products you desire.

I used the FREE RIBBON for the handles of the gift bag.  The buttons and the ribbon come together as ONE FREE ITEM through Sale-a-Bration.  They match the colors used in the designer paper.

I stamped Papillion Potpourri stamp set and colored it in with my markers, then used the butterfly punch and glued it on the bag.

Thanks again to JAN for sharing her expertise with us all.  Make some of these fun bags for your gifts to friends and family soon!!

Come on, get creative y'all!!  Let me know if I can help you, ya hear?

EXTRA DAY

ONE EXTRA DAY OF SALE-A-BRATION ITEMS TO SHOW YOU.  I JUST COULDN'T FIT IT ALL INTO OUR 4 DAYS OF BLOG HOPPING!!

 This is the HAPPY HELLO SIMPLY SENT KIT which is, you guessed it, FREE with SALE-A-BRATION!!  It is a kit to make cards, but I wanted to show you how easy you can make other projects, like this gift box for goodies.  I got the idea on the web and the directions from Barb M. at Barbstamps.com.  Thanks girlie!!

 You can see how the kit looks on the left and on the far right how the paper looks.  And a little peek into the box as well for the chocolate goodies!!  YUMMM

 The embellishment of the 3 layer flowers and the stripe are self adhesive die cuts that come in the kit, as well as the rhinestones on the left side.  I added the blue brad inside the flower from my stash.  And of course I added the cellophane bag of candy tied with summer starfruit ribbon from my stash as well!!  (grin)

 

Directions for scoring.  Lay it down flipped pattern side down,  the Tall way on the score tool where you will score at 1" and 4 1/2: all the way down.  

Then turn it the Long way on the score tool and score at 3" only. (It is even with where the the printed chevrons end on the backside.) There is another score line about 1" below that which comes already scored when you receive it.

You cut the two tab areas where the Long scores meet the Tall scores.  These are your tabs and you put Sticky Strip on the outside of these and also on the top along the outer edge as shown in the photo.

I just wanted you to see how the blue printed chevrons show on the side once you adhere them over.  It does not go all the way around.  You adhere the back white piece first on the small tab, then adhere the blue piece.

That's all there is to it.  You can now make cute gift boxes of goodies to go with your cards from this FUN and FREE Simply Sent Kit.

Hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial.  Here's to creativity y'all!!

LAST DAY OF SALE-A-BRATION BLOG HOP

Do you have a Sale-a-Bration flyer?  If you do not have a demonstrator, I would love to mail one to you.

For those of you who have a flyer, there is something I would like to point out.  I am the first to admit the flyer is a bit confusing.  It is in a different format than we usually see, so we have to search it very carefully so we don't miss anything.  It reminds me of the board game "CLUE".  You know, where Colonel Mustard used a knife in the ballroom.  ha   I first saw things I just HAD to get.  Then I went back and studied it more and saw some things I had not noticed before.  FREE ITEMS FROM OUR LARGE ANNUAL CATALOG. (page in annual catalog is included for your reference)

1.  ITTY BITTY BANNERS STAMP SET,  (p. 134) - (wood 132194) (clear 132195)

2.  GETTING STARTED CARD STOCK PACK, (p. 151) - basic colors of card stock, 24 sheets (p. 151) (#132199)

3.  VINTAGE FACETED DESIGNER BUTTONS, (p. 191) - (#132201) 24 buttons

4.  QUINT-ESSENTIAL FLOWER STAMP (p. 110) - (#132202)  goes with 4 punches!!

5.  SIMPLY SCORED DIAGONAL PLATE (p. 181) - (#132203)

6.  ESSENTIALS PAPER-PIERCING PACK (p. 181) - (#132204)

MAKE SURE YOU USE THE ITEM NUMBERS IN THE FLYER OR ABOVE BECAUSE THEY ARE SPECIAL NUMBERS FOR YOU TO GET THE ITEM AS YOUR FREE ITEM FOR SALE-A-BRATION!!

Ok, enough of business, now on to the creativity.

For this card I used very vanilla cs as the base and used  the FREE VINE STREET EMBOSSING FOLDER.  I then rubbed some Crumb Cake ink over the raised embossed images to help them show up more.

I used FREE SYCAMORE STREET DESIGNER SERIES PAPER along the bottom of my card, as well as FREE SYCAMORE STREET RIBBONS AND BUTTONS PACK.  L.O.V.E.  how all the colors coordinate with each product we use.

The FREE STAMP SET I used is called MADISON AVENUE STAMP SET.

I used mini pop dots to glue on the buttons on each flower.  I put a sliver of card stock into the button holes to make them look like they had been sewn.  Love the satin ribbon in pool party!!  The colors that coordinate with this DSP and what I used are:

ISLAND INDIGO
TANGERINE TANGO
POOL PARTY
RICH RAZZLEBERRY
GUMBALL GREEN

LOVE how the embossing folder and the stamp set coordinate so well, don't you?  

My next card is a minimalist card that packs a lot of punch:

 I LOVE bees!!  They are a symbol of industry, hard work and tenacity.  All the qualities that are good character traits to have.  Sorry for the lighting changing the color of the card stock.  It is DAFFODIL DELIGHT like this first photo.  The second photo makes it look like a different color and I am sorry for that.  My flash directly on the card is changing the color on my camera.

 The other thing I love about bees is HONEY!!  I love the taste of honey.  I love whipped honey, honey butter and honey candy.  It is so yummy, isn't it?  So this HONEYCOMB EMBOSSING FOLDER is perfect for this card with my little bees.  The bee is from the stamping set COLLAGE CURIOS in the SPRING CATALOG and they are small stamps to go with small punches, small spaces like the honeycomb, and small embellishments like the small POP CAPS.

Notice the awesome new ribbon?  It is NATURAL TRIM from the SPRING CATALOG.  It has a lot of texture and is very nice to work with.  I also used CRYSTAL EFFECTS on top of the bees on the HONEYCOMB EMBOSSING FOLDER for that shiny effect like they are inside their cell of the honeycomb.

  The sentiment is from CIAO BABY STAMP SET from the SPRING CATALOG and I used the FREE PETITE CURLY LABEL PUNCH from SALE-A-BRATION.  I also used the CURLY LABEL PUNCH from the big catalog as the back layer punched from FREE SYCAMORE STREET DESIGNER PAPER.

A closeup of my special detail of the small POP CAP, crushed on my BIG SHOT with a 3/4 INCH PUNCH glued on the top.  I punched a small hole with my 1/16 INCH HAND HELD PUNCH for my mini pin to go through to attach my embellishment to the trim.  Isn't that darling??!!  Do you like honey or bees?

THANK YOU  for visiting our blog hop this week.  I hope you have lots of inspiration now to start your spring stamping.  If you need any supplies, I would love to help you.  You can click my signature line below to go to my order site.

Don't forget to leave me a comment on the card today to be entered into my BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY.

Click the flyer to see all the FREE product you can earn!

TWO VALENTINE SPECIALS

Our New SPRING CATALOG starts today and to kick it off, Stampin' Up! also has NOT ONE BUT TWO specials for YOU:

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Valentine Bundle # 132771  special price only $5.95

Available for $5.95 until January 21, 2013 this bundle includes :

• 1" x 8" Cello bags
• Happy Valentine Heart single stamp   (Clear Mount only )  (will fit on block C or D )

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Starting today  through January 21, 2013

This stamp set is ONLY available in Clear Mount  and  will not be available after January 21, 2013

•  My Little Valentine Stamp Set #132242 at only $9.99

When you purchase this stamp set you will get the

• Simply Sent "Sealed with Love" kit # 126923  for FREE.

Get yours now and start making your Valentine treats for your family and friends!!